Originally Posted by SmokeyTheBear

sorry i meant announced not started..

the only way to have a true se comp is to use "existing keywords" or something randomly created at the inception of the contest..

otherwise i could just start the competition then tell my friend the keywords before it started , get 100 seo people all to drop links to my page in hopes of winning a prize thats impossible to win.

a better way to choose the keywords is to do something like " the first letter of each of the top 8 news stories on yahoo for the day it starts " that way theres no way someone could pre-seo the keywords